Kostecki led Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters by 0.0402s ahead of Matt Payne (Grove Racing), Thomas Randle (Tickford Racing), and Kai Allen (Grove Racing).
Chaz Mostert was the best of the Toyota drivers in sixth for Walkinshaw TWG. However, the same couldn’t be said for his teammate Ryan Wood, who was a high-profile omission from the Top 10 Shootout.
He went off at Turn 5 on his final flying lap and again at Turn 1 after the chequered flag, bemoaning brake dramas.
Matt Stone Racing duo Jack Le Brocq and Zach Bates were standouts for Chevrolet in seventh and ninth respectively.
Between them, Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney was eighth while Blanchard Racing Team driver James Golding rounded out the top 10.
Will Brown’s qualifying torment continued. He narrowly missed out on the Top 10 Shootout in 11th.
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“I made a bit of a mistake, but we’re not at the front right now,” said Brown.
“We’re probably around where Broc is, that eighth position car. It’s quite hard out there.
“It is what it is. We were trying to save a set of greens for the shootout.
“We just didn’t get through. At the end of the day, we’ll work hard in the race and try move up again. That’s pretty much all we can do.
“It’s disappointing, that’s for sure.”
Anton De Pasquale had a horror Q1, only qualifying 20th. Teammate David Reynolds just scraped into Q2 and went on to qualify 18th.
That was in stark contrast to Friday’s efforts in cooler conditions when De Pasquale qualified second alongside Kostecki.
De Pasquale said he felt like he was a long way out of the set-up window and had no balance.
Asked what went wrong, he replied “I don’t know.”
“Different tyre today obviously. Where we’ve been trending obviously didn’t like this tyre,” De Pasquale explained.
“Then I think we missed the window with pressures and stuff. We tried some things for the second run and it was no good.
“That’s all right, it’s all part of the learnings. Well have a good race car and try to move forward.”
The Top 10 Shootout gets underway at 12:05pm AEST.
Results: Repco Supercars Championship betr Darwin Triple Crown, Race 2 Qualifying
| Pos | Num | Driver | Team | Car | Lap | Diff | Gap |
| 1 | 17 | Brodie Kostecki | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.0531 | ||
| 2 | 6 | Cameron Waters | Tickford Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.0933 | 0.0402 | 0.0402 |
| 3 | 19 | Matthew Payne | Grove Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.1981 | 0.1405 | 0.1048 |
| 4 | 55 | Thomas Randle | Tickford Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.2194 | 0.1663 | 0.0213 |
| 5 | 26 | Kai Allen | Grove Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.2507 | 0.1976 | 0.0313 |
| 6 | 1 | Chaz Mostert | Walkinshaw TWG Racing | Toyota GR Supra A90 | 1:06.2655 | 0.2124 | 0.0148 |
| 7 | 4 | Jack Le Brocq | Matt Stone Racing | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.3122 | 0.2591 | 0.0467 |
| 8 | 88 | Broc Feeney | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.3257 | 0.2726 | 0.0135 |
| 9 | 10 | Zach Bates | Matt Stone Racing | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.3878 | 0.3347 | 0.0621 |
| 10 | 7 | James Golding | Blanchard Racing Team | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.4116 | 0.3585 | 0.0238 |
| Q2 | |||||||
| 11 | 888 | William Brown | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.4323 | 0.3792 | 0.0207 |
| 12 | 777 | Declan Fraser | PremiAir Racing | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.4560 | 0.4029 | 0.0237 |
| 13 | 99 | Cooper Murray | Erebus Motorsport | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.4733 | 0.4202 | 0.0173 |
| 14 | 31 | Jayden Ojeda | PremiAir Racing | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.4742 | 0.4211 | 0.0009 |
| 15 | 8 | Andre Heimgartner | Brad Jones Racing | Toyota GR Supra A90 | 1:06.4978 | 0.4447 | 0.0236 |
| 16 | 3 | Aaron Cameron | Blanchard Racing Team | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.5555 | 0.5024 | 0.0577 |
| 17 | 2 | Ryan Wood | Walkinshaw TWG Racing | Toyota GR Supra A90 | 1:06.5986 | 0.5455 | 0.0431 |
| 18 | 20 | David Reynolds | Team 18 | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.7105 | 0.6574 | 0.1119 |
| Q1 | |||||||
| 19 | 38 | Rylan Gray | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.5218 | 0.4687 | |
| 20 | 18 | Anton De Pasquale | Team 18 | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.5263 | 0.4732 | 0.0045 |
| 21 | 14 | Cameron Hill | Brad Jones Racing | Toyota GR Supra A90 | 1:06.5455 | 0.4924 | 0.0192 |
| 22 | 11 | Jackson Walls | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Ford Mustang GT | 1:06.6417 | 0.5886 | 0.0962 |
| 23 | 9 | Jobe Stewart | Erebus Motorsport | Chev Camaro ZL1 | 1:06.7521 | 0.699 | 0.1104 |
| 24 | 96 | Macauley Jones | Brad Jones Racing | Toyota GR Supra A90 | 1:06.7823 | 0.7292 | 0.0302 |
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